Originally Posted by candyflip

Nope.

He actually wrote the program and contacted them to see if he could get the rights to use it and inturn he'd pay them daily and help combat spam from other people. As far as I know, he didn't actually do the spamming. They got him on that and extortion because he said he'd make the code available to anyone if they weren't interested in his offer.

I don't know the complete outcome. He's gotta stay quiet until sentencing.